Hi all, Below first some thoughts on the switch to texlive in general and next a problem I'm now seeing with the installation guide. Sorry for the length of this post. I was just on the point of making the switch from teTeX to TeX Live on one system until I noticed that installing Tex Live would take a whopping 591 MB of extra diskspace if one follows aptitude... After first upgrading only unrelated packages, things became a bit more manageable. It turned out that unselecting a number of recommended packages I could actually do with only 23 MB more diskspace [1], without at first seeming to lose any important functionality. [1] Ignoring diskspace freed by not replacing tetex-doc (61 MB) with texlive-doc (85 MB). At first I also had the texlive meta package unselected. Adding that back got me back to 201 MB _extra_ diskspace again, so I've decided to see if I can do without or not... Next I noticed that this would still leave me without any hyphenation support for languages the installer builds. Adding back those I currently need resulted in 89.6 MB _extra_ diskspace again. Note that it is rather unfortunate that these cannot be easily installed automatically (at least without installing _a lot_ more packages by build depending on texlive-full) as this will mean they may not be pulled in during a lot of builds on buildds and thus no or suboptimal hyphenation in a lot of our documentation! I would strongly suggest introducing a meta package texlive-lang-all. Also because depending on individual texlive-lang-* packages would mean running the risk of missing new languages when they become available. All in all, the upgrade is far from straightforward if you like your system relatively clean and texlive seems incredibly more diskhungry than tetex was. After installing what I thought I needed (and having the dependencies from jadetex satisfied), I tried building the installation guide, but ended up with: $ jadetex build.tmp/install.en.tex This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/jadetex.fmt was written by pdfetex (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) No idea what to do with this... Some packages for which I'm not sure if I'll need them or not are: - lmodern - pgf - texlive-font-utils - texlive-fonts-extra - texlive-generic-recommended - texlive-generic-extra Here is what I ended up with for now. Possibly I can still remove the hlatex packages now. ii dvipdfmx 20061211-2 A DVI to PDF translator with CJK support ii hlatex-fonts-base 1.0-3.1 basic HLaTeX fonts files ii jadetex 3.13-7.1 generator of printable output from SGML or X ii latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex 3.1.1-4 LaTeX package to support Hangul - HLaTeX's U ii texlive-base 2007-3 TeX Live: Essential programs and files ii texlive-base-bin 2007-3 TeX Live: Essential binaries ii texlive-common 2007-3 TeX Live: Base component ii texlive-doc-base 2007-2 TeX Live: Base documentation ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2007-3 TeX Live: Recommended fonts ii texlive-lang-croatian 2007-3 TeX Live: Croatian ii texlive-lang-cyrillic 2007-3 TeX Live: Cyrillic ii texlive-lang-czechslovak 2007-3 TeX Live: Czech/Slovak ii texlive-lang-danish 2007-3 TeX Live: Danish ii texlive-lang-dutch 2007-3 TeX Live: Dutch ii texlive-lang-finnish 2007-3 TeX Live: Finnish ii texlive-lang-french 2007-3 TeX Live: French ii texlive-lang-german 2007-3 TeX Live: German ii texlive-lang-greek 2007-3 TeX Live: Greek typesetting ii texlive-lang-hungarian 2007-3 TeX Live: Hungarian ii texlive-lang-italian 2007-3 TeX Live: Italian ii texlive-lang-norwegian 2007-3 TeX Live: Norwegian ii texlive-lang-other 2007-3 TeX Live: Other hyphenation files ii texlive-lang-polish 2007-3 TeX Live: Polish ii texlive-lang-portuguese 2007-3 TeX Live: Portuguese ii texlive-lang-spanish 2007-3 TeX Live: Spanish ii texlive-lang-swedish 2007-3 TeX Live: Swedish ii texlive-lang-vietnamese 2007-3 TeX Live: Vietnamese ii texlive-latex-base 2007-3 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages ii texlive-latex-recommended 2007-3 TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages Cheers, FJP
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